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TAICPART
2010
IEEE
133views Education» more  TAICPART 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Localizing Defects in Multithreaded Programs by Mining Dynamic Call Graphs
Abstract. Writing multithreaded software for multicore computers confronts many developers with the difficulty of finding parallel programming errors. In the past, most parallel d...
Frank Eichinger, Victor Pankratius, Philipp W. L. ...
CORR
2002
Springer
117views Education» more  CORR 2002»
13 years 4 months ago
Detecting Race Conditions in Parallel Programs that Use Semaphores
Abstract. We address the problem of detecting race conditions in programs that use semaphores for synchronization. Netzer and Miller showed that it is NP-complete to detect race co...
Philip N. Klein, Hsueh-I Lu, Robert H. B. Netzer
TON
2008
74views more  TON 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Race conditions in coexisting overlay networks
By allowing end hosts to make independent routing decisions at the application level, different overlay networks may unintentionally interfere with each other. This paper describes...
Ram Keralapura, Chen-Nee Chuah, Nina Taft, Gianluc...
ESOP
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Types for Safe Locking
Abstract. A race condition is a situation where two threads manipulate a data structure simultaneously, without synchronization. Race conditions are common errors in multithreaded ...
Cormac Flanagan, Martín Abadi
CONCUR
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Object Types against Races
This paper investigates an approach for statically preventing race conditions in an object-oriented language. The setting of this work is a variant of Gordon and Hankin’s concurr...
Cormac Flanagan, Martín Abadi
PLDI
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Adversarial memory for detecting destructive races
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to race conditions, a problem exacerbated by the widespread adoption of multi-core processors with complex memory models and cache coh...
Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund
TLDI
2003
ACM
121views Formal Methods» more  TLDI 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Types for atomicity
Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for unexpected and nondeterministic interactions between threads. Previous work has addresse...
Cormac Flanagan, Shaz Qadeer
PLDI
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A type and effect system for atomicity
Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for unexpected and nondeterministic interactions between threads. Previous work addressed th...
Cormac Flanagan, Shaz Qadeer
HICSS
2003
IEEE
140views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Token Dispensers for GSS Race Conditions: Locking Things That Don't Exist
A technological challenge that distinguishes group support systems (GSS) from many other technologies is the need to accommodate a variety of race conditions. A race condition occ...
Robert O. Briggs, Tomas P. Gregory
ICTAC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Inherent Causal Orderings of Partial Order Scenarios
Scenario based requirements specifications are the industry norm for defining communication protocols. Basic scenarios captured as UML sequence diagrams, Message Sequence Charts ...
Bill Mitchell